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International policy and diplomacy

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PUBPOL 621

PUBPOL 621: Peacebuilding: Law, Diplomacy, and the Transition from Conflict

This course will examine how the U.S. and other international actors seek to help pacify, stabilize, and rebuild societies embroiled or emerging from...

PUBPOL 676

PUBPOL 676: International Politics of Poverty

Susan Waltz

This course examines alternative approaches to the study of poverty and development. Attention is directed primarily to problems confronted in the global South, with some comparative perspective on Western industrialized...

PUBPOL 475.001

PUBPOL 475.001: Topics: The Role of Courts in International Human Rights

This course will explore the legal enforcement of those human rights that are fundamental and are the birthright of all human beings. We will review the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to...

PUBPOL 534

PUBPOL 534: Economics of Developing Countries

Dean Yang

This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of...

PUBPOL 750.002

PUBPOL 750.002: Topics: The Role of Courts in International Human Rights

PUBPOL 541

PUBPOL 541: International Trade Policy

Alan Deardorff

This course examines the policy issues of international trade, including trade in both goods and services and also international flows of direct investment and...

PUBPOL 716

PUBPOL 716.001: Introduction to Chinese Policy

Ann Chih Lin

This first portion of the course, held in Ann Arbor, will introduce students to China and its policy and economic...

PUBPOL 510

PUBPOL 510.002: Politics of Public Policy

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only. Registration is by...

PUBPOL 475.304

PUBPOL 475.304: Topics: Issues in National Security

Melvyn Levitsky

This course concentrates on the foreign policy aspects of U.S. National Security. We will study the Cold War preface to current policy as well as broad issues of substance and process affecting national security...

PUBPOL 675

PUBPOL 675.001: Human Rights and International Policy

Susan Waltz

This course reviews the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to protect human...

PUBPOL 475.305

PUBPOL 475.305: Topics: Lessons from the Japanese Economy

Joshua Hausman

This course will provide an overview of recent Japanese economic history and the current state of the Japanese economy. We will consider what economic policymakers around the world can learn from...

PUBPOL 674

PUBPOL 674.001: Economic and Social Policies in an Emerging Market

Susan Waltz

This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...

PUBPOL 542

PUBPOL 542.001: International Financial Policy

Kathryn Dominguez

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy...

PUBPOL 480

PUBPOL 480: Global Engagement Seminar: Costa Rica

Susan Collins

This advanced seminar challenges public policy majors to consider how policy issues are framed and addressed in a non-US...

PUBPOL 510

PUBPOL 510.001: Politics of Public Policy

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students only. Registration is by...

PUBPOL 763

PUBPOL 763.001: Global Issues: Drugs, Crime and Terrorism

Melvyn Levitsky

Students will explore the global issues of illegal drugs, and international drug trafficking, crime and...

PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.004: Policy Seminar: Global Financial Markets

Kathryn Dominguez

PUBPOL 495 is open to students in the Public Policy BA program, by permission...

PUBPOL 556

PUBPOL 556.001: Macroeconomics

Joshua Hausman

This course teaches students the basic tools of macroeconomics and how to apply them to real world economic...

PUBPOL 717

PUBPOL 717.001: Social Activism, Democracy & Globalization: Perspective of the Global South

Yazier Henry

How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580.001: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

Joy Rohde

This is a core course restricted to Ford School students...

PUBPOL 716

PUBPOL 716.001: Introduction to Chinese Policy

Ann Chih Lin

This first portion of the course, held in Ann Arbor, will introduce students to China and its policy and economic environments. Drawing on the expertise of Ford School faculty and outside...

PUBPOL 650

PUBPOL 650.001: Introduction to Science and Technology Policy Analysis

Joy Rohde

Drawing on an interdisciplinary social science literature, this course introduces theories and methodologies for science and technology policy analysis and familiarizes students with the landscape of science and technology policymaking in the US...

PUBPOL 475

PUBPOL 475.306: Topics: Immigration Policy

Ann Chih Lin

Immigration is a phenomenon that touches upon every aspect of American society, from economic growth to neighborhood institutions to national...

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580.001: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped...

PUBPOL 541

PUBPOL 541.001: International Trade Policy

Alan Deardorff

This course examines the policy issues of international trade, including trade in both goods and services and also international flows of direct investment and...

PUBPOL 674

PUBPOL 674.001: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

Shobita Parthasarathy

This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...

PUBPOL 495

PUBPOL 495.002: Policy Seminar: Global Financial Markets and Crises, and Policies

Kathryn Dominguez

Global financial markets provide both opportunities and risks for macroeconomic...

PUBPOL 674

PUBPOL 674.002: Economic and Social Policies in a Selected Emerging Market Economy

Shobita Parthasarathy

This course developed from an initiative of the International Policy Students Association (IPSA) at the Ford School of Public Policy. It will be in two...

PUBPOL 621

PUBPOL 621.001: Peacebuilding: Law, Diplomacy, and the Transition from Conflict

This course will examine how the U.S. and other international actors seek to help pacify, stabilize, and rebuild societies embroiled or emerging from...

PUBPOL 556

PUBPOL 556.001: Macroeconomics

John Leahy

This course teaches students the basic tools of macroeconomics and how to apply them to real world economic...